REVIEW: "One habit a week. Change yourself for a year, "Brett Blumenthal

The way you spend your day, just how do you spend your life. Book Brett Blumenthal (Brett Blumenthal) will help you to acquire new habits and change your life for the better over the year.

Sometimes you postpone something for tomorrow, and then it turns out that 10 years have passed. The idea to wake up a new person looks very tempting, but very few people manage it without any strong shocks. I usually make a circle around the dense forest of its habits and back to the starting point, badly undermining faith in their own strength. How to avoid it? Change gradually, in small steps, under the watchful and sensitive leadership.

Brett Blumenthal

An expert on healthy lifestyles. He received an MBA and an MBA from Cornell University. For more than 10 years advising Fortune 100 companies, helping management to achieve effective changes. Winner of several industry awards and Certified by the American Aerobics and Fitness Association.

Most likely you've met a long list like "100 things you should do to be happier." Personally, I love them, you can read, think how it would be great to do it all and forget after 10 minutes. Brett Blumenthal has cut the infinitely useful lists up to 52 items to improve your life for the year in four areas:

• stress resistance;
• the ability to concentrate and performance;
• memory and protection against aging;
• feeling happy and full of life.

How it works

The program consists of 52 small changes to your lifestyle. Each of these small steps is accompanied by an explanation of the reasons for its importance and tips for successful implementation of positive changes in your life. Consistently achieving success at every step, you get supply of energy for the next step.

Small changes are less painful and more real. In addition, you can see results faster. No matter what a person wants to change a fundamentally three points: any significant change involves a series of consecutive small changes; the tactics of "all or nothing" often does not work; small changes in themselves are pushing the desire to move forward on the path to success.

Brett Blumenthal, "one habit a week"

Even if it seems that some of the habits you have already mastered, do not ignore the relevant paragraphs of the program. There is a big difference between Conducting business listings and their effective use. And a real gulf is between the daily listening to music and using music to help with daily activities. Do not rush to put a tick in the check-list of your new habits!

Speaking of the check-lists: The book has a whole section of tools and resources to oversee the development of the program. Here you will find questions and tables that measure important for you to understand the direction of change and their problems. This is a great benefit, not leaving loopholes for you to laziness and carelessness and allows to adjust the program to fit your needs.

Who is this book

Frankly, it is universal. Even if you are completely happy with your life, you will find there are many great ideas and tips will be able to take another look at some of their habits. You definitely need to read this book if you:

• again not able to change their lives Monday;
• just can not get out of your comfort zone or, even worse, you can not find your comfort zone;
• You do not know how to set priorities;
• You do not know how to relax;
• You want to be happier, but just can not afford it;
• "In general, it is happy, but ...";
• You do not know how to react to the problems of life;
• want to self-esteem;
• want to improve relationships with people;
• We realized the importance of long-term prospects.

The program is designed for a year, but the Brett Blumenthal proposes to consider it as a guide to the long-term use. Some points of the program, you can probably slip in a couple of days, the development of some habits can take over a week. Do not rush to give the new firmly rooted in your life. "One habit in a week" - this is not a book that can be read and give to someone. To it you can come back again and again as soon as feel are missing something important in their lives. As a Chinese proverb says, do not be afraid to grow slowly, afraid to remain unchanged.

"One habit a week. Change yourself for a year, "Brett Blumenthal

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